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News Headlines

• Some States Continue Health Care Reform Efforts Despite Budget Deficits 11/19/09
• Banks and Health Care Debt Collectors Poised to Benefit from Rise in HSA Growth 11/12/09
• ACA International Board Halts Plans for Self Regulation in Collection Industry 11/5/09
• Removing Antitrust Exemption Will Have Little Impact on Health Insurers 10/29/09
• Public Health Care Plan Option Gains Favor with Americans Amid Health Insurer Mishaps 10/23/09
• ARM Professionals Look For Cost Containment in Health Care Reform 10/16/09
• Restrictive Debt Collection Language in Reform Bill Targets Hospitals, Not Debt Collectors 10/9/09
• State Lawmakers Seek Legislative Solutions to Health Care Reform Mandates 9/28/09
• Workers Pick up the Tab for Rising Health Care Premiums in Employer-Sponsored Family Plans 9/17/09
• Follow Michael Lamm on Twitter at AAHAM Regional Meeting 9/15/09
• Obama says he won’t Back Down on Public Plan as Choice for Affordable Health Care Coverage 9/10/09
• Survey Says Health Care Reform Still Popular as ARM Industry Examine Changes 9/3/09
• ARM Companies with Immigrant Collections Expertise May Get Boost from Reform 8/28/09
• ARM Industry Weighs Impact of Health Care Reform on Business 8/21/09
• Employee Share of Prescription Drug Cost to Pressure Bad Debt Expense 8/13/09
• New On-line Payment Service Aims to Speed Small Balance Collections 8/3/09
• Patient’s Death Renews Calls on Capitol Hill to Limit Specialty-Hospital Growth 7/21/09
• Health Care Reform Bills Would Hit ARM Firms as Businesses, Rather than as Collectors 7/17/09
• Unpaid Medical Bills and Health Care Initiatives Increasing Demand for ARM Help 7/9/09
• Recent Acquisition Gives ARM Firm New Healthcare Services Expertise 6/18/09
• Follow Michael Klozotsky on Twitter at the HFMA Conference 6/15/09
• ARM Industry Gets Face Time with Lawmakers on Health Care Reform Proposals 6/12/09
• Medical Collection Agency Acquisitions Help Software Developer Sell Product 5/29/09
• Health Care Reform May Restrict Hospitals’ Collection Outsourcing Activities 5/22/09
• Expanding Nurse Practitioners Primary Care Role Could Lower Medical Bad Debt Balances 5/15/09
• Fast-Tracked Health Care Reform May Have Little Impact on ARM Industry in Short Term 5/1/09
• SCHIP Expansion May Present Lower Cost Collection Opportunities 4/24/09
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jim Richards, Capio Partners 4/7/09
• Walgreens Looks to Make a Larger Footprint on Basic Health Care Delivery 4/3/09
• Room For Healthcare Reform in President’s Budget: Analysts 3/27/09
• Best Places to Work in Collections Winner Profile: National Patient Account Services 3/23/09
• State Lawmakers Seek Other Ways to Reduce Health Care Cost; Limiting Interest on Debt and Exec Pay 3/20/09
• Grassley, Bingaman to Continue Crusade for Charity Care Definitions, Mandates 3/12/09
• Growing Retail Clinic Industry Could Impact Self-Pay Collections Volume 3/5/09
• Retail Clinics Poised to Gain from Medicaid and SCHIP Expansion 2/26/09
• Field of Medical Debt Buyers Narrows Further with Capio Partners Acquisition 2/19/09
• Stimulus Provides More Emergency Aid to Health Care Industry than Job Creation 2/6/09
• New Committee Assignment Allows McCain to Play a Role in Health Care Reform 1/30/09
• Medical Debt Sellers Looking for Buyers in Weak Financial Market 1/23/09
• Lawsuit Sheds Light on Medical Data Practices as Trigger for Rising Self-Pay Balances 1/16/09
• SCHIP Bill Could Be Chief Performance Officer’s First Efficiency Test 1/14/09
• AHA Ad Urges Congress to Help Hospitals, Uninsured in Economic Recovery Plan 1/9/09
• Lawsuit May have Implications for Medical Collection Agencies 1/6/09
• Collection Agency Sued for Allegedly Violating Charity Care Law 1/2/09
• Medical Debt Collections from Self Pay Accounts to Increase in 2009 12/23/08
• New Illinois Law Could Benefit Medical Debt Recoveries for State Hospitals 12/19/08
• Hospitals Quietly Seek Financial Assistance from Capitol Hill 12/16/08
• More Caps on Medicare and Medicaid no Solution to Rising Health Care Costs 12/12/08
• Electronic Medical Records May Provide Revenue for Providers and Patients 12/10/08
• Hospitals’ Strategy to Boost Medicaid Enrollments Could Hurt Industry’s Long Term Financial Stability 12/5/08

Analysis Headlines

• Changes in the Healthcare Industry that will Impact ARM Companies
• Medical ARM Firms Feeling Pressure of a Sour Economy
• The Cash Market in Healthcare
• Healthcare Self-Pay Collection - Recover from Those Who Can Pay
• Utilizing Revenue Cycle Platforms Benefit Both Patients and Hospitals
• Creditor Survey Underscores Anxiety about Current Economic Conditions
• Competition in Healthcare - Physician Hospitals as Instigators of Change
• Maximizing Revenues in Troubled Times: Proven Methods of Extracting Water from a Stone
• The Tangled Web of Google Health – Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
• Accounting for Bad Debt: Charity Care, IRS Form 990, and ARM
• How to Maximize the Effectiveness of your Healthcare Collection Agency
• The State of the Industry: What is Next for ARM?
• Healthcare Without a Net
• State Healthcare Reform and the Collection Industry
• Healthcare Debt: Not Your Typical Portfolio
• What Really Makes Healthcare Collections Unique
• Increasing Cash Collections: Best Practices for Healthcare Receivables Management
• Interview: Leigh Marcus, VP of Professional Claims Bureau, Inc
• Legislating Healthcare Funding and its Effects on ARM
• Interview: Jack Nixon of CMRE Financial Services, Inc
• HIPAA and Medical Collections: Staying Compliant Worth the Hassle
• Interview: Michael DiMarco, CEO of The Outsource Group
• Debt Buyers’ Growing Interest in Alternative Asset Classes

Research Headlines

• Kaulkin Report 7 Excerpt - Healthcare Industry is Unusually Diverse 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Providers and Receivables Management 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Conclusion, Outlook, and Index 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Suppliers to the Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Threats to the Healthcare ARM Industry 
• Healthcare ARM Report - The Healthcare Industry and its Need for Receivables Management 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry 
• Global Debt Buying Report - Healthcare Receivables in the U.S. 

Press Releases

• Combined Business to Create Next-Generation Revenue Cycle Solutions, Improving Administration and Ca 11/16/09
• Accredited Healthcare Business Associates Now Accepting Membership Applications 11/13/09
• Conifer Expands Revenue Cycle Services Agreement with Colorado Hospital System 11/11/09
• Doctations Partners with Professional Claims Bureau in Providing End-to-End Practice Management and Outsource Revenue Cycle Solutions 11/11/09
• Greenfish Fund Purchases Another Large Medical Debt Portfolio 11/6/09
• As the Health Care Debate Rages On, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) Continue to Gain in Popularity 11/6/09
• Capio Partners Partners with Aequitas Capital Management to Purchase Bad Debt Receivables 11/2/09
• Collection Associates Announces Acquisition of Money Recovery Nationwide 10/30/09
• Officers and Board Of Directors Elected at MDHBA Annual Conference 10/30/09
• Revenue Cycle Solutions, Inc. selects ZirMed as Financial Services Platform Strategic Partner 10/29/09
• MDHBA Offers Recognition At Annual Conference In California 10/28/09
• Equifax to Acquire IXI Corporation 10/22/09
• EOS CCA Launches Healthcare Funding and Servicing Unit AffordaCare 10/19/09
• Clams Review Corporation and Denied Claims Services Company Change Marketing Strategies 10/12/09
• Executive Change: RSource Hires David Agarth as Healthcare Division President 10/8/09
• Executive Change: Chris Tyler to Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions as CIO 10/8/09
• Merchants & Medical Credit Corp. Selects The Intelitech Group's Acumen! Business Analytics Suite 9/16/09
• Invoice Factoring: Helping Small Businesses Leverage Health Care Costs 9/14/09
• Business Debt Collections: Falcon Medical Now Falcon WorldWide Debt Collection 9/11/09
• The Outsource Group Expands Its Medicaid Eligibility Services Through Acquisition of Medstandard, Inc. 9/10/09
• Conifer Health Solutions Launches Updated Web Site 7/30/09
• MedPay Contributes to Henry County Health Center Receipt of High Performance in Revenue Cycle Award 7/29/09
• St. Joseph Medical Center Selects McKesson for Revenue Management Services 7/21/09
• Expeditive's White Paper - Revenue Cycle Turnaround: Can you go it alone? 7/21/09
• Capio Partners, LLC announces the acquisitions of over $1.2 billion in Healthcare Receivables for 2Q09 7/16/09
• Executive Change: Cheri Kane Hired as Division President for The Outsource Group 7/16/09
• Joint ZirMed®/MedInformatix Revenue Solution Diagnoses Payment Bottlenecks For Large Colorado Imaging Practice 7/14/09
• Medical Data Systems Announces Operations Expansion and Opening of its Primary Collections Operations Office 7/10/09
• Patients’ Ability to Pay and Federal Healthcare Reform Are Greatest Challenges to Hospitals: MedAssist Survey 6/30/09
• Receivable Recovery Partners Expands in Historic Neighborhood 6/26/09
• McKesson Revenue Management Group Honored for Consistent Excellence in Customer Service 6/26/09
• Conifer to Provide Revenue Cycle Services for Three Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System Hospitals 6/16/09
• Aspect Customer Wins 1to1 Customer Champion Honors 6/11/09
• Navicure Debuts On Healthcare Informatics 100 6/10/09
• Trumbull Laboratories Sees 55% Reduction In Accounts Receivable 6/9/09
• Health Systems Select MedAssets' Claims Management Solutions to Drive Financial Improvement 6/5/09
• Healthcare Providers and their Uncollectibles 6/5/09
• Receivables Management Bureau Changes Name to Healthcare Receivables Group 6/5/09
• ZirMed® Named To Healthcare Informatics Magazine’s Top 100 6/3/09
• Cardon Third-Party Eligibility Program Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation 6/2/09
• Capio Partners Announces the Acquisition of $1.2 billion in Healthcare Receivables 5/27/09
• Executive Change: Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions Names Business Development Leader 5/13/09
• iVolution Medical Systems Acquires Continental Collection Services 5/13/09
• FHS' ClearQuote-Patient Estimations Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation 5/8/09
• ZirMed Partners With Hands On Technology, Offering Revenue Cycle Management Solutions To TheraOffice Users 4/21/09
• Accredited Healthcare Business Associates Joins AHA as Associate Member 4/17/09
• MDHBA Awards First CPAS Certification; 17 Individuals Now Certified 4/17/09
• Ontario Systems Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 4/16/09
• Medical Management Consultants Inc. Loses Collection License 4/13/09
• New Collection Strategy Helps Hospitals Convert Bad Debt Into Revenue 4/8/09